by Joel Bray Dance, Wiradjuri
Date Premiered: May 2021
Presenting/host partner: Northcote Town Hall and, Yirramboi Festival
Location: Melbourne
A queer pop caberet immersive audience experience that reimagines the sexual ecology that might have existed on this continent before the Coloniser. Considerable Sexual Licence brings together four award winning performers. Proud Wiradjuri man Joel Bray and a talented team of collaborators including Carly Sheppard, Dan Newell and Niharika Senepati come together for a flirty, occasionally filthy and deeply passionate look at the true history of sensuality ‘down under’.
Considerable Sexual License is a playful invitation to explore your own history and relationship to sex, sexuality and personal freedom, and a celebration of Country, community, consent and kinship.
Through painstaking research and personal reflection, the team delve deep into the deliberately misrepresented practices of ceremony to reimagine the songs, dances, partying and perhaps something a little sexier.
Considerable Sexual License was created with development support from Creative Spaces, PACT and Lucy Guerin Inc. YIRRAMBOI Festival, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts House, Creative Victoria and Chunky Move. Considerable Sexual Licence is supported by BlakDance, through BlakForm. BlakForm is funded through Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative.